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The Fremantle Group Pension Plan has completed a buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) to cover approximately £47m of deferred and pensioner liabilities.

The second National Cycle to Work Day has been officially launched.

Respondents to PP research have dismissed suggestions that people should change the way they think about pensions, and called for scheme managers to have a role in guiding members.

Defined contribution (DC) default funds remain heavily dependent on the stock market, with the average fund investing 80% of its portfolio in developed market equities, says Schroders.

The Treasury Committee has welcomed "transformational" changes to defined contribution (DC) retirement income announced in this year's Budget.

HR vacancies grew by 15% in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the last three months of 2013.

Prudential has become the latest life company to report severely hit annuity sales in the wake of radical reforms to how people can access their pension.

Barnett Waddingham has been appointed to provide investment consultancy services to the £850m Thomas Cook Pension Plan.

Last year saw a big increase in the number of people attempting to find lost pension pots through the government's Pension Tracing Service, according to official statistics.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has opened a consultation on proposed changes caused by the abolition of contracting out of the additional state pension by defined benefit (DB) schemes.